Well, well, well.
One for winter, one for spring..
Here comes the episode II of the L-system series ( the “tetralogy” lol).

Here is the official announce.




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HOUDINI L-systems Workflow DVD 2
Mastering Workflow And Rendering L-systems
http://www.cmivfx.com/product_houdini_lsystems2.asp [cmivfx.com]
(In High Definition)

cmiVFX is proud to announce the second installment to the L-systems series of Houdini
training videos. In part 1 of the series, we showed you what L-systems were, what was
behind all the l-system syntax, and how to create some nice models of trees,
plants, and flowers. Now it's time to give purpose to your creations. In this DVD, you
will learn how to master the workflow of rendering your trees.

Lessons in the show will teach you the workflow to render your trees non
photo-realistically and with a painterly look to fly through a Monet or Cezanne
impressionist painting much like the effects in the award-wining movie “What dreams may
come”. You will learn the not well-known curve rendering and NPR sprite rendering tricks
and interactive outline drawing techniques. Continue on by learning how to interactively
paint some vegetation defined by L-systems and how to make it creep along an arbitrary
piece of geometry like ivy.

We actually show more than pure l-system here: we take a little time to open the door to
“procedural painting”, which is the ability to link Houdini procedural machinery to
painting inputs through advanced CHOP techniques, allowing the user to have an extended
PaintFX-like tool that can go far beyond what is just presented is this DVD, where you
could visually paint streets, railways and particle effects. Use our template to quickly
design your landscape foliage.

If all that wasn't enough for you, then we keep going by showing you the workflow to
handle complexity with nesting L-systems. We created an asset for you which allows you to
plug l-system within l-system. You will learn how to split a complex set of rules into
visual blocks of reusable L-systems workflow, that you pipe one into the other. The
benefits are immense in value. Not only can you turn l-system creation into a more visual
and more interactive process while keeping the benefits of having completely editable
structures, but you can then access more complex L-systems that were simply unattainable
with simple rules. You can also extend information passing into the l-system, using non
l-system specific expressions, and thus you can have realistic hierarchical deformation of
L-systems!

We take you through countless examples, from controlling the silhouette of a tree to
extended tree models. And finally, we take you in two recapitulative projects: the
creation of a majestic whomping willow with Ivy growing on him.

Not only was the first DVD the first one ever released about the L-systems, this new DVD
is the first one to show you real non-photorealistic workflow as well as real
unprecedented procedural painting and how to use L-systems beyond L-systems (what the
L-systems creators couldn't even imagine).

For more information about cmiVFX and the best High-End, High-Def training, please visit

our the website at http://www.cmivfx.com [cmivfx.com]

Link:
http://www.cmivfx.com/product_houdini_lsystems2.asp [cmivfx.com]

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Looks amazing!

I ordered it yesterday only moments after I got the e-mail from chris.
Can't wait for it to be in my ftp

Don't know, but I don't think I'm gonna buy this one..

I got the first one and it's just amazing, a really powerful language/system to produce plants and fractal looking objects..

There will be another two Dvd's (I hope they will implement photorealistic shading) so I am gonna wait because I don't need most of the knowledge offered in this dvd (the only really important thing is for me the ivy whatever).

But it is like always a really great dvd for sure… cmivfx rules!

greetings

Part 2 meaning dvd 2 is crazy… it just makes product M look like a bastard child… compared to Houdini.. wiht this version of paint fx type of things… it;s just sick…. Great Job David … thanks for the useful insite you don't normally learn…


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